OK, I start watching a show, and something comes up that I can't finish watching it just then. Maybe someone else in the house comes along in the meantime and watches somethign else or even that same recording, and loses wher eI'd paused the playback. Eventually I get back to watching it, but don't want to see the portion I've already viewed for a second time.
I'd like to fast-forward to the point I left off last time around and begin watching there.
I'll have to skip over parts of the show, and also skip over the earlier commercials to get to my desired begin point.
What the heck is wrong with that?!
Or maybe I've recorded something with a really cool event in the middle or toward the end that I want to show someone or just enjoy all by myself again, without having to wait through all the less interesting stuff before it? Is that wrong too?
OK, since the people of Spain are now buying a cumpulsory license every time they buy anything that coupld possibly hold content, then they don't need to pay the license fee at the store again anymore, right?
If they buy an MP3 capable cellphone, and then buy a flash memory card for that cellphone, they've now bought two cumpulsory licenses for "one device". Is there a rebate form or something for this case?
Anyway, now that the suffering artists are now getting paid (sic) when someone buys the storage media, we don't need to ever hear about piracy again, no? After all, they've already paid their license fee...
I looked into running oen of the protein folding clients a few years ago, thinking it a good idea to help with cancer or aids or whatver it was instead of the dnetc thing. But they were looking for lots of volunteer computer time to create something for them to patent. Sorry dude, but if they ain't gonna share the results, then they can pay for the computer time.
My office has bought a soda machine and two snack vendnig machines in response to relatively poor honesty. There's still just a regular freezer for ice cream though, and we occasionally get emails about that. I think a nice picture of a guy watching over us, with a moustache and everything, could help out. I'll have to look up the 1984 poster description and try to come up with something to present to the snack guy.
If this theory is true, then why don't I enjoy horror movies? Sometimes they're gross, they're often boring, and I rarely enjoy the things. The only time I've been actually "arfraid" in a videogame was crawling under the bridge in HalfLife2 (I'm afraid of heights and that genuinly made me uncomfortable), but did I experience joy because of it? I liked playing Mario Kart more than I liked being uncomfortable under that bridge.
Where do you think they're going to hide the watermarks for copy protetion and/or tracking pirate rips to their source? The best place, considering the common user/casual pirate, is directly in front of them where they can't see it. The pros will find a way around it, they always do, but Jimbob ain't gonna be sharing his new DVD over the internet without someone tracking it back to him somehow.
The thing that AMD doesn't make of their own is integrated graphics chipsets.
I didn't think AMD made chipsets at all, integrated graphics or not. OK, they make some early chipsets for new frontside busses now and then, but don't really mass-market the things, especially after the traditional chipset vendors get caught up.
Doesn't AMD benefit from having integrated chipsets from both NVidia and ATI? (Are NVidia's that integrated, or is the graphics still a seperate chip for them??)
How well will this be received? Will people who eat rice avoid it? There's a lot of vegetarians out there, will this altered rice be considered valid vegetarian or is it now tainted with animal kingdom DNA and they will refuse it?
Wouldn't this be easy to crash with a frequency jammer? The bad guys wouldnt' even need to make mombs or anythign anymore, just make a cheesy signal jammer look like any normal piece of consumer electronics and this plane is toast. The cables and stuff may weigh more, but at least they're a lot harder for the bad guys to mess with.
Maybe he wants to tell us the second mouse button is too far away;-)
Actually, for some people wanting to dulboot with Windows, now that this is possible, the single button touchpad could be an issue. How does one properly use Windows these days with only one mouse button, when it's not convenient to pull out a USB mouse with more buttons?
I was just thinking this would make a great triple-OS laptop but your joke got me thinking... What about Windows and Linux???
I've never read 1984, but it's feeling like I should read up on how my life will be soon.
I'd also like to send a copy to my reps in congress. Let them know how I feel about things over the past couple years. Maybe even send a copy to our buddies Dubya and Cheney. Anyone else like to join the project?
There's a retro commercial market though. Things that have been dormant for ages are now again for commercial sale for example in the plethora of direct-to-TV joysticks to play Galaga, Centipede, Pac Man, and many others. The copyright owners aren't just going to give away stuff they might find a market for again later on. Similar to Disney's "vault" where they sell a movie for a short time and then tke it off the market to artifically limit supply, it's still illegal to share copies of their films during the not for sale periods just because its not buyable at the time. While an annoying business model, especially if the kids scratch and ruin a DVD of their favorite movie that you might not be allowed to replace legally at the store, it is what it is, and I'd be suprised if the marketing guys will change this.
Sculptor Sanborn announced this week that everyone had gotten it wrong, because of a mistake on the art piece.
Did everyone really get it wrong? Seems they may have all have solved the problem they were presented with, even if this wasn't the problem which was intended. So they may not have solved what was intended, but Sanborn's mistake doesn't automatically make everyone else a failure... If I take a math test that asks me what 4 * 7 is and I answer 28, but they say "oops, we really meant to ask what was 12 / 3", is my answer to the question "wrong"?
Personally, I'd be for this system if (and only if) subscribing to the non-ad version completely removes all advertising. But that is never going to happen.
Wasn't this one of the original intentions of cable? Pay your monthly fee instead of watching ads? How well did that work out?
Now we're paying rediculous fees every month, have tons of ads, a "half-hour long" show is actually only about 18 minutes of the show itself, we get ads overlayed on top of the show covering up to 1/3 of the screen now, and rediculous product placements in the show itself. When will they completely eliminate the show and leave us with nothing but 50 channels of 24/7 advertizements in return for our monthly subscription fee, which will probably become leglly required to pay to protect the advertizers from people just not having TVs anymore?
Basically they plan to add extra flags to the Multimedia Home Platform that would stop controls from working until the ads are finished.
DVDs did that years ago and I've hated it the whole time. Especially after I've waited for it for previous viewings of a movie, and I'ev already decided to or not to buy that thing or watch that other movie coming soon (ie. 4 years ago) to a theater or DVD near me. Is this prior art, or do they have a loophole aroung it? Though I wouldn't mind if the threat of lawsuit over such a patent prevented any media distributors from doing any mroe of this really annoying crap.
For Nvidia, intellectual property is a secondary issue. "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help," said Andrew Fear, Nvidia's software product manager.
It's also hard to do a lot of things that Linux have already proven are possible. Besides, why should it be so hard? I'm involved with a graphics driver project for a small alternative OS. While it's a very part-time hobby undertaking, those in the project have made it work pretty well. Sure, there's more to do. But good documentation goes a long way, and the biggest hurdles we've seen were due to vague docs, outright wrong docs, or totally undocumented variations from one chip to the next in this family. I hope the people working at the chip company have better docs than we've seen under NDA...
As for my opinion on the topic at hand, I'm not at all against proprietary drivers in Linux. I'm not a license expert or lawyer, so can't comment on the true legality of it with GPL, but as a Linux user I'd rather have a decent graphics card than be stuck with an antique. The reason I got the driver project I mentioned above going was that Voodoo3 drivers were finaly supported for the small market OS I like and everyine got very excited, at a time when Voodoo4 and 5 had come and gone, 3dfx was bust and bought by Nvidia and stuffed in a back closet somewhere to collect dust for the rest of eternity, and the early Radeons and GeForces were taking the market.
Voodoo3 support failed to impress me 4 years ago, and I'd hate to be limited to that era in Linux today just because it's open-sourced and new/recent cards are not. Same for any other cards you'd want to plug in and use under Linux.
Is the cause for delay relatively small feature that can be added without significant trouble, or is it a whole redo new design/rewrite? Is the product completely unsellable or unusable without it? Is it important or just eye candy? If not perfect, would it work acceptably as it is and get an upgrade to be even better in the near future, or is it not upgradable at all?
I work at a semiconductor company doing chip layout. There's been times when we're close to finishing what we were given to do and marketing comes in and asks for new stuff. When we get close to finishing the revised design the come in and ask for yet another change or addition. At times I wish I had the authority to tell them no, as I'd love to actually finish SOMETHING. Some additions make sense, others I'd like to chuck out the window.
Eh? I thought it was the environmentalists that were getting their grants pulled by industry and government folks... So the other guys are getting it too? So, should we not believe either of them then?
I'm relatively new to cellphones, and started my search for a phone thinking that way. All I wanted was a durable phone with good reception and sound quality. I've got a decent camera. And the less expensive phones you can choose from when signing up for service had really crappy VGA cameras. (My first digital camera was VGA resolution and I hated it. If my sister hadn't taken it I'd have put it in the trash.) VGA cameras might as well not be there IMNSHO. But it seemed difficult to find a decent (ie. not going to fall apart because it's such a cheapo piece of crap) phone that had no camera at all. If I was going to be stuck with a camera because I don't want an el cheapo crappy phone, I wanted one worth having, and with Verizon's offerings that seemed to be 1.3MP. And since I didn't want to end up having to pay "The Man" every time I wanted a picture out of my phone and onto my PC, I got one with a memory card and USB cable support.
I'm not one to carry my digital camera everywhere I go. But in recent months having a camera phone around has been handy, as occasionally something funny happens at lunch or wherever that it's nice to have a picture of. The kinds of things you don't and/or can't plan for before hand to know when to carry a "real" camera with you. I'm also told it's handy for car accidents, and that kid on Prisonbreak got a photo of the guy that killed his parents and framed him good. Hopefully that doesn't become a popular use for many people, but you get the idea.
I've got a bunch of stuff in my phone that I don't really need there. I've got an iPod for mp3s. I've got a calculator for work. This thing has a full keyboard but I don't know what I'd use texting for, but it is nicer for typing in people's names for the address book than the regular keypad. The stereo speakers do seem a waste with them so close together. I can't imagine hearing a good stereo effect from them with mp3s. Does make for a decent speakerphone though.
If I replace the thing I'd probably go for a true PDA phone, simply because I hate the user interface on this thing. I'd love to be able to install more user-friendly applications for file managing than what LG/Verizon put in this sucker.
For me it's all about how easy is it to get my stuff off (or sometimes on) my phone, and to my computer.
Ah, yes. Us geeks consider this to be important, but I'm not convinced that the masses care much about this. Thsi was important to me and was a big factor in choosing what phone I got, which has a mini-SD memory card, I ordered a USB cable for it, and it also can sync with my PC via bluetooth. The camera is less megapixels than other phones out there, but the 1.3MP I have may be the best available on Verizon, I'm not sure.
One thing I don't understand is the artificial limitation of 15 seconds per video clip recorded withthe camera. Some suspect it may be to limit bandwidth usage when sending clips over the Verizon network. But that doesn't make sense to me as there's 3 other methods to get stuff directly to/from my PC with this phone. Maybe it's a limitation to stay on par with phones that don't have flash cards/USB/bluetooth transfer capabilities. If they truely are worried about bandwidth, then have an option to record network-friendly 15 second clips or longer (to flash memory capacity) videos that won't be allowed to send over the network. Or limit clip sends to 15 seconds and ignore any remaining video clip for the send. Let people with big flash cards take long videos and limit access to them to USB cable or something to save the network while still making it convenient to nickel and dime us to death if we want to share things without waiting to get to our PCs.
I found it odd that I can use my PC to get pictures out of or onto my phone via bluetooth, but I can't send or get pictures from another cellphone via bluetooth. Sure, the marketing materials only claim for bluetooth headphones, hands-free kits and modem purposes, but the bitpim software I use for synching with my PC seems to be doing something other than those three definitions to get my pix and address book. It'd be cool to be able to bitpim stuff directly between phones as well.
And my final data access grumble for this post is the lack of a "copy" command in my phone. I can "move" pictures or mp3s or whatever from phone memory to flash card and back, but I cannot "copy" it. The source location is always erased. So if I want to share a picture with a friend who also has a mini-SD slot in his phone, we can't both end up with the picture. I can save it to the mini-SD card, but then he'd have to "move" it off the card into his phone's internal memory and I no longer have a copy without getting a PC involved. (OK, sure, that assumes his phone has the same lame limitations as mine does, perhaps he has a different phone that does have a "copy" command)
I'd love to have a dev kit to make my own file manager app for this thing...
The only "PC" Ive ever bought is my laptop. All the desktops before that I bought a motherboard, then I bought the particular case I liked, then I bought a graphics card that suited me, etc. Do they only go after those selling fully assembled hardware without an OS, or do I need to set up a filing system to keep track of these things as well?
If only this came up a week ago. I got ticked off that a Gentoo update mangled something and I coldn't get into KDE anymore so I dumped it and tried kubuntu. Probably from my lack of familiarity with the ubuntu/debian packaging methods, I couldn't figure out how to do things that had become rather easy for me in Gentoo, such as get the proprietary binary Nvidia drivers going, install mythtv, etc. Even trying generic system full update had lots of failures for some reason, perhaps the network wasn't quite right or something, but after a coupel days of it doing very little that I wanted it to, I'm reinstalling Gentoo again. And I don't particularly want to anymore. I like portage, but I hate having to compile freakin everything in the universe...
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OK, I start watching a show, and something comes up that I can't finish watching it just then. Maybe someone else in the house comes along in the meantime and watches somethign else or even that same recording, and loses wher eI'd paused the playback. Eventually I get back to watching it, but don't want to see the portion I've already viewed for a second time.
I'd like to fast-forward to the point I left off last time around and begin watching there.
I'll have to skip over parts of the show, and also skip over the earlier commercials to get to my desired begin point.
What the heck is wrong with that?!
Or maybe I've recorded something with a really cool event in the middle or toward the end that I want to show someone or just enjoy all by myself again, without having to wait through all the less interesting stuff before it? Is that wrong too?
OK, since the people of Spain are now buying a cumpulsory license every time they buy anything that coupld possibly hold content, then they don't need to pay the license fee at the store again anymore, right?
If they buy an MP3 capable cellphone, and then buy a flash memory card for that cellphone, they've now bought two cumpulsory licenses for "one device". Is there a rebate form or something for this case?
Anyway, now that the suffering artists are now getting paid (sic) when someone buys the storage media, we don't need to ever hear about piracy again, no? After all, they've already paid their license fee...
I looked into running oen of the protein folding clients a few years ago, thinking it a good idea to help with cancer or aids or whatver it was instead of the dnetc thing. But they were looking for lots of volunteer computer time to create something for them to patent. Sorry dude, but if they ain't gonna share the results, then they can pay for the computer time.
My office has bought a soda machine and two snack vendnig machines in response to relatively poor honesty. There's still just a regular freezer for ice cream though, and we occasionally get emails about that. I think a nice picture of a guy watching over us, with a moustache and everything, could help out. I'll have to look up the 1984 poster description and try to come up with something to present to the snack guy.
If this theory is true, then why don't I enjoy horror movies? Sometimes they're gross, they're often boring, and I rarely enjoy the things. The only time I've been actually "arfraid" in a videogame was crawling under the bridge in HalfLife2 (I'm afraid of heights and that genuinly made me uncomfortable), but did I experience joy because of it? I liked playing Mario Kart more than I liked being uncomfortable under that bridge.
Where do you think they're going to hide the watermarks for copy protetion and/or tracking pirate rips to their source? The best place, considering the common user/casual pirate, is directly in front of them where they can't see it. The pros will find a way around it, they always do, but Jimbob ain't gonna be sharing his new DVD over the internet without someone tracking it back to him somehow.
The thing that AMD doesn't make of their own is integrated graphics chipsets.
I didn't think AMD made chipsets at all, integrated graphics or not. OK, they make some early chipsets for new frontside busses now and then, but don't really mass-market the things, especially after the traditional chipset vendors get caught up.
Doesn't AMD benefit from having integrated chipsets from both NVidia and ATI? (Are NVidia's that integrated, or is the graphics still a seperate chip for them??)
Automobiles can be used to assist in escape from a burglary or any other kind of crime, so automobiles should also be illegal.
How well will this be received? Will people who eat rice avoid it? There's a lot of vegetarians out there, will this altered rice be considered valid vegetarian or is it now tainted with animal kingdom DNA and they will refuse it?
Wouldn't this be easy to crash with a frequency jammer? The bad guys wouldnt' even need to make mombs or anythign anymore, just make a cheesy signal jammer look like any normal piece of consumer electronics and this plane is toast. The cables and stuff may weigh more, but at least they're a lot harder for the bad guys to mess with.
Maybe he wants to tell us the second mouse button is too far away ;-)
Actually, for some people wanting to dulboot with Windows, now that this is possible, the single button touchpad could be an issue. How does one properly use Windows these days with only one mouse button, when it's not convenient to pull out a USB mouse with more buttons?
I was just thinking this would make a great triple-OS laptop but your joke got me thinking... What about Windows and Linux???
I've never read 1984, but it's feeling like I should read up on how my life will be soon.
I'd also like to send a copy to my reps in congress. Let them know how I feel about things over the past couple years. Maybe even send a copy to our buddies Dubya and Cheney. Anyone else like to join the project?
There's a retro commercial market though. Things that have been dormant for ages are now again for commercial sale for example in the plethora of direct-to-TV joysticks to play Galaga, Centipede, Pac Man, and many others. The copyright owners aren't just going to give away stuff they might find a market for again later on. Similar to Disney's "vault" where they sell a movie for a short time and then tke it off the market to artifically limit supply, it's still illegal to share copies of their films during the not for sale periods just because its not buyable at the time. While an annoying business model, especially if the kids scratch and ruin a DVD of their favorite movie that you might not be allowed to replace legally at the store, it is what it is, and I'd be suprised if the marketing guys will change this.
Sculptor Sanborn announced this week that everyone had gotten it wrong, because of a mistake on the art piece.
Did everyone really get it wrong? Seems they may have all have solved the problem they were presented with, even if this wasn't the problem which was intended. So they may not have solved what was intended, but Sanborn's mistake doesn't automatically make everyone else a failure... If I take a math test that asks me what 4 * 7 is and I answer 28, but they say "oops, we really meant to ask what was 12 / 3", is my answer to the question "wrong"?
Personally, I'd be for this system if (and only if) subscribing to the non-ad version completely removes all advertising. But that is never going to happen.
Wasn't this one of the original intentions of cable? Pay your monthly fee instead of watching ads? How well did that work out?
Now we're paying rediculous fees every month, have tons of ads, a "half-hour long" show is actually only about 18 minutes of the show itself, we get ads overlayed on top of the show covering up to 1/3 of the screen now, and rediculous product placements in the show itself. When will they completely eliminate the show and leave us with nothing but 50 channels of 24/7 advertizements in return for our monthly subscription fee, which will probably become leglly required to pay to protect the advertizers from people just not having TVs anymore?
Yea, but then the old rule "your mouth can't get pregnant" no longer applies...
Basically they plan to add extra flags to the Multimedia Home Platform that would stop controls from working until the ads are finished.
DVDs did that years ago and I've hated it the whole time. Especially after I've waited for it for previous viewings of a movie, and I'ev already decided to or not to buy that thing or watch that other movie coming soon (ie. 4 years ago) to a theater or DVD near me. Is this prior art, or do they have a loophole aroung it? Though I wouldn't mind if the threat of lawsuit over such a patent prevented any media distributors from doing any mroe of this really annoying crap.
For Nvidia, intellectual property is a secondary issue. "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help," said Andrew Fear, Nvidia's software product manager.
It's also hard to do a lot of things that Linux have already proven are possible. Besides, why should it be so hard? I'm involved with a graphics driver project for a small alternative OS. While it's a very part-time hobby undertaking, those in the project have made it work pretty well. Sure, there's more to do. But good documentation goes a long way, and the biggest hurdles we've seen were due to vague docs, outright wrong docs, or totally undocumented variations from one chip to the next in this family. I hope the people working at the chip company have better docs than we've seen under NDA...
As for my opinion on the topic at hand, I'm not at all against proprietary drivers in Linux. I'm not a license expert or lawyer, so can't comment on the true legality of it with GPL, but as a Linux user I'd rather have a decent graphics card than be stuck with an antique. The reason I got the driver project I mentioned above going was that Voodoo3 drivers were finaly supported for the small market OS I like and everyine got very excited, at a time when Voodoo4 and 5 had come and gone, 3dfx was bust and bought by Nvidia and stuffed in a back closet somewhere to collect dust for the rest of eternity, and the early Radeons and GeForces were taking the market.
Voodoo3 support failed to impress me 4 years ago, and I'd hate to be limited to that era in Linux today just because it's open-sourced and new/recent cards are not. Same for any other cards you'd want to plug in and use under Linux.
Is the cause for delay relatively small feature that can be added without significant trouble, or is it a whole redo new design/rewrite? Is the product completely unsellable or unusable without it? Is it important or just eye candy? If not perfect, would it work acceptably as it is and get an upgrade to be even better in the near future, or is it not upgradable at all?
I work at a semiconductor company doing chip layout. There's been times when we're close to finishing what we were given to do and marketing comes in and asks for new stuff. When we get close to finishing the revised design the come in and ask for yet another change or addition. At times I wish I had the authority to tell them no, as I'd love to actually finish SOMETHING. Some additions make sense, others I'd like to chuck out the window.
What's holding up Duke Nukem Forever?
Eh? I thought it was the environmentalists that were getting their grants pulled by industry and government folks... So the other guys are getting it too? So, should we not believe either of them then?
I'm relatively new to cellphones, and started my search for a phone thinking that way. All I wanted was a durable phone with good reception and sound quality. I've got a decent camera. And the less expensive phones you can choose from when signing up for service had really crappy VGA cameras. (My first digital camera was VGA resolution and I hated it. If my sister hadn't taken it I'd have put it in the trash.) VGA cameras might as well not be there IMNSHO. But it seemed difficult to find a decent (ie. not going to fall apart because it's such a cheapo piece of crap) phone that had no camera at all. If I was going to be stuck with a camera because I don't want an el cheapo crappy phone, I wanted one worth having, and with Verizon's offerings that seemed to be 1.3MP. And since I didn't want to end up having to pay "The Man" every time I wanted a picture out of my phone and onto my PC, I got one with a memory card and USB cable support.
I'm not one to carry my digital camera everywhere I go. But in recent months having a camera phone around has been handy, as occasionally something funny happens at lunch or wherever that it's nice to have a picture of. The kinds of things you don't and/or can't plan for before hand to know when to carry a "real" camera with you. I'm also told it's handy for car accidents, and that kid on Prisonbreak got a photo of the guy that killed his parents and framed him good. Hopefully that doesn't become a popular use for many people, but you get the idea.
I've got a bunch of stuff in my phone that I don't really need there. I've got an iPod for mp3s. I've got a calculator for work. This thing has a full keyboard but I don't know what I'd use texting for, but it is nicer for typing in people's names for the address book than the regular keypad. The stereo speakers do seem a waste with them so close together. I can't imagine hearing a good stereo effect from them with mp3s. Does make for a decent speakerphone though.
If I replace the thing I'd probably go for a true PDA phone, simply because I hate the user interface on this thing. I'd love to be able to install more user-friendly applications for file managing than what LG/Verizon put in this sucker.
For me it's all about how easy is it to get my stuff off (or sometimes on) my phone, and to my computer.
Ah, yes. Us geeks consider this to be important, but I'm not convinced that the masses care much about this. Thsi was important to me and was a big factor in choosing what phone I got, which has a mini-SD memory card, I ordered a USB cable for it, and it also can sync with my PC via bluetooth. The camera is less megapixels than other phones out there, but the 1.3MP I have may be the best available on Verizon, I'm not sure.
One thing I don't understand is the artificial limitation of 15 seconds per video clip recorded withthe camera. Some suspect it may be to limit bandwidth usage when sending clips over the Verizon network. But that doesn't make sense to me as there's 3 other methods to get stuff directly to/from my PC with this phone. Maybe it's a limitation to stay on par with phones that don't have flash cards/USB/bluetooth transfer capabilities. If they truely are worried about bandwidth, then have an option to record network-friendly 15 second clips or longer (to flash memory capacity) videos that won't be allowed to send over the network. Or limit clip sends to 15 seconds and ignore any remaining video clip for the send. Let people with big flash cards take long videos and limit access to them to USB cable or something to save the network while still making it convenient to nickel and dime us to death if we want to share things without waiting to get to our PCs.
I found it odd that I can use my PC to get pictures out of or onto my phone via bluetooth, but I can't send or get pictures from another cellphone via bluetooth. Sure, the marketing materials only claim for bluetooth headphones, hands-free kits and modem purposes, but the bitpim software I use for synching with my PC seems to be doing something other than those three definitions to get my pix and address book. It'd be cool to be able to bitpim stuff directly between phones as well.
And my final data access grumble for this post is the lack of a "copy" command in my phone. I can "move" pictures or mp3s or whatever from phone memory to flash card and back, but I cannot "copy" it. The source location is always erased. So if I want to share a picture with a friend who also has a mini-SD slot in his phone, we can't both end up with the picture. I can save it to the mini-SD card, but then he'd have to "move" it off the card into his phone's internal memory and I no longer have a copy without getting a PC involved. (OK, sure, that assumes his phone has the same lame limitations as mine does, perhaps he has a different phone that does have a "copy" command)
I'd love to have a dev kit to make my own file manager app for this thing...
My roommate's Sony Ericsson W800 with 2MP takes better pictures than my LG VX9800 with 1.3MP.
My Olympus C7000 Zoom digital camera with 7MP takes better pictures than both phones.
The only "PC" Ive ever bought is my laptop. All the desktops before that I bought a motherboard, then I bought the particular case I liked, then I bought a graphics card that suited me, etc. Do they only go after those selling fully assembled hardware without an OS, or do I need to set up a filing system to keep track of these things as well?
If only this came up a week ago. I got ticked off that a Gentoo update mangled something and I coldn't get into KDE anymore so I dumped it and tried kubuntu. Probably from my lack of familiarity with the ubuntu/debian packaging methods, I couldn't figure out how to do things that had become rather easy for me in Gentoo, such as get the proprietary binary Nvidia drivers going, install mythtv, etc. Even trying generic system full update had lots of failures for some reason, perhaps the network wasn't quite right or something, but after a coupel days of it doing very little that I wanted it to, I'm reinstalling Gentoo again. And I don't particularly want to anymore. I like portage, but I hate having to compile freakin everything in the universe...
Maybe I'll try kubuntu again with this script..